🖌️ Arts & Crafts
- Coloring Books
- Mandala
- Watercolors
- Painting Rocks
- Crafting Things
- Clay
- Paint each other
- Draw 2 min, then swap with Person
🎨Activities
🧩 Games & Puzzles
- Building LEGOs
- Rubik Cubes
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Video Games
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- Mario Kart (Wii, Switch)
- Animal crossing (Switch)
- Journey (PC, PS4, PS3)
- Proteus (PC, PS3 & PS Vita)
- A Short Hike (PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One)
- Little Big Planet 2 (PS3)
- Board/Card Games
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- Chess
- Memory
- UNO
- Jenga
🧠 Mental
- ✍️ Writing
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- Journaling
- Stories
- Letters
- Programming
- 📖 Reading
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- Reading out loud
- Random Wikipedia Articles
- Books
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- Picture/Photography Books
- Where's Wally?
- Codex Seraphinianus
- 🧘 Meditating
🪄 Sensory
- Water
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- Put hands in cold water
- Pour cold water over head
- Taking a shower or bath
- Hot Tub or sauna
- Cold spoons on face for wake-up sensation
- Pet animals
- Roll around in bed
- Lie in an empty bathtub
- Playing an instrument
- Sing
- Cleaning and sorting
- Building a fort out of blankets and pillows
- Have hair combed
- Run hands through someone's hair
- Lay on your stomach, then lift and lower arms slowly
- Brush teeth
- Use hand sanitizer
- Stand in front of a fan after showering
- Peppermint oil on face
🏃♂️ Sport
- Dancing
- Yoga
- Stretching
- Running
- Push-ups & Squats
🌳 Outdoor
Stay safe! Always have a trusted buddy or tripsitter with you for outdoor activities, or at least notify someone of your plans or share your location.
- Go for a walk
- Hike
- Swim
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- with swimming goggles
- Ride a bicycle
- Museum
- Water balloon fight
- Hug a tree
- Walk barefoot on grass or sand
- Lay on grass
- Roll down hill
- Go to a playground
- Use swings
- Trampoline
- Play Laser Tag
- Roller coasters
- Feel the wind
- Feel the rain
- Carwash
🗣️ Social
- Tell personal stories
- Talk about feelings
- Talk to others while all stand in other corners of the room
- Attempt telepathic communication
- Communicate with made-up language and eye contact
- Pretend to be a mime
- Airplane game with arm interlock and lifting
- Hold hands and spin in circles
- Be shaken around by two people
- Arms and legs fall through the floor trick
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- One person lays on their stomach, with their arms and legs straight, eyes closed
- Two persons take their hands and feet and lift them up (not the whole body)
- Leave them up for like 30 seconds
- Then lower them really slowly
❤️ Couple's Activities
- Massages
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- Oils/cremes
- Back rubs
- "Egg crack" head massage
- "Rolly polleys" massages while hugging
- Give hand and foot rubs
- Hand massage with finger pulling
- Synchronized deep breathing
- Body painting
- Cuddle
- Hold hands
- Scratch
- Kiss
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- Rub ice on lips before
- Sex
- Wash and suck on someone's fingers
- Turbo Hug
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- Take a few deep breaths, then hold your breath and hug your partner really tight
Avoid
- Zoo's
- Drive